Word: signalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field, in a circle 20 feet in diameter. The game is opened by the act of "facing" in which the two centres, each with his left shoulder towards his opponents' goal, hold their sticks wood downwards on the ground, the ball being placed between them. When the signal is given the centres draw their crosses or sticks sharply inward in order to gain possession of the ball. The ball may be kicked or struck with the crosse, as in hockey, but the goal keeper alone may handle it, and then only to block and not to throw...
...until 8 o'clock that the boats lined up to wait for the gun to start the final race on Saturday, for rough water had necessitated the postponing of the starting time. Cornell was left a length behind in the first hundred yards after the starting signal, and although Coach Haines Technology outfit made a strong bid to stay in the race for a time, it was evident that the contest lay between the Crimson and the Red and Blue crews...
...Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" was heralded a great achievement and established the organization as one of the foremost male choruses in America. The acclaim with which the recent performance of Brahms's "Requiem" was grooted, marks, however, a still greater triumph M. Koussevitzky paid the Glee Club a signal honor by acting as is cost conductor; now he adds his high praise in words which carry the weight of undoubted authority. He not only asserts that it is the best trained chorus in America, but gives it a place of international distinction. Dr. Davison, the individual members of the Glee...
Eight letter men and four Freshmen who won their numerals last fall formed the nucleus around which the new first team rallied. Two elevens and a handful of substitutes ran through signal drill, despite the rain. The coaches announced that practice would be held every day of the period, whatever the weather conditions...
...bomb outrage at the Cathedral was taken to be a signal for a general uprising of the Bulgarian Bolsheviki against the Government. A strict censorship was established by the Government, but reports leaked out-of hand-to-hand fights in Sofia, of assassinations, plunderings and terrorism in the Provinces, of ugly skirmishes on the Greek and Serbian borders. More than 1,000 persons were arrested in Sofia. House to house searches were made. Martial law was proclaimed. Some 400 Bolsheviki were summarily executed. A quantity of Red revolutionary evidence was found. Central Europe was alarmed...